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Terendak Military Cemetery: Bodies, Burials, and ‘Operation Bring Them Home'

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Terendak Military Cemetery occupies an unusual position in the history of Australian war cemeteries. Initially established to service the needs of the community at Terendak Garrison—the operational base for Commonwealth forces in Malaya during the early years of the Cold War—it became the official overseas burial site of Australian dead during the ...
Hannah Swaine, Kate Ariotti
wiley   +1 more source

Endogenous and Exogenous Drivers of Refugee Policy of the Transit State: The Case of Indonesia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most studies on transit states emphasise exogenous influences on domestic refugee policymaking, with little consideration of endogenous factors to the state itself. Exploring literature from migration studies, refugee studies and international law studies, we identify and classify nearly identical endogenous and exogenous drivers of refugee ...
Anita Herlina   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Becoming climate sentinels

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract In South Korea, forest scientists refashion themselves as “climate sentinels” as they confront subtle yet disquieting shifts in plant seasonality brought about by climate change. Unlike traditional sentinels, who watch for external threats from a frontier, climate sentinels face ecological anomalies and surprises—such as untimely flowering ...
Sumin Myung
wiley   +1 more source

Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence: Reflections on Listening, Solidarity, and Decoloniality in Myanmar's Borderlands

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

Partnering for Health Workforce Development: A Case Study of Australian Volunteers International and the Solomon Islands Medical Internship Training Programme

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the Solomon Islands Graduate Intern Supervision and Support Project (SIGISSP) and its successor, the Solomon Islands Medical Partnership for Learning, Education and Research (SIMPLER), a decade‐long partnership between the Solomon Islands Ministry of Health and Medical Services, the National Referral Hospital and Australian
Sharon McLennan
wiley   +1 more source

From the COVID‐19 Pandemic to Crises: Lessons for Canadian Climate Governance

open access: yesCanadian Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic was the most significant governance stress test in recent Canadian history, revealing both the capacities and constraints of Canadian public administration under acute uncertainty. This article examines Canada's pandemic response as a diagnostic case for understanding governance capacity relevant to long‐duration ...
Colin Dring
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring children's experiences of schooling in Tanzania: How the ‘hidden curriculum’ undermines aspirations for sustainable development

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In the context of aspirations that firmly position education as the key to multiple global development goals, we raise concerns about how education is experienced by many children, particularly in low‐income, postcolonial contexts. Drawing from two, in‐depth qualitative studies in Tanzania, we demonstrate that existing pedagogical practices ...
Laela Adamson, Rhona Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Magical Realist Hauntings in Children's Everyday Encounters With Death, or, How to Believe in Impossible Things

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern deaths have become reiterations. That is, despite exhibiting a seemingly high‐level of diversity in death's representations in everyday lives, death suffers from a particular onto‐epistemological poverty that prevents it from being imagined otherwise.
Zhaoxi Zheng   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vietnamese and Vietnamese American Literature in a Postcolonial Context

open access: yes, 2003
No abstract available."Vietnamese and Vietnamese American Literature in a Postcolonial Context." Beyond the Borders: American Literature and Postcolonial Theory. Edited by D. Madsen.
Renny Christopher
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